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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

Seneca the Younger

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Laughter
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy

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